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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-11-10

the conquests she has made aud puts
on more 'beggarly airs than would the
daughter of one of the wealthiest citi-
zens.
She would not for the world have
any one believe that she teaches
school. Oh, mol But why ! Is there
any disgrace attached to earning ones
living Rather the opposite but It
is SO high-toned to appear to be able
TO live without work. Alas ] for our
Republic that such In the case. It is
the ambition Of our young men TO get
clerkship in o bank or mercantile
Office in the city, and when thcy get @
weeks vacation they return home
sporting sham lewelry, cheap. trashy
rings, and wearing loud-Patterned
clothes-all done to impress others
with the Importance of the young man
who is in business in the city,
Then there are others who put on
'beggarly airs by pretending they are
better of than they. An acquaint-
ance drinks champagne, SO must they;
friend pays dollar and a half to
see some star actress, 30 must they
even if they have to run into debt to
the landlady of the clearinghouse.
They haven't stamina enough to say
i can't afford such an expense
All such sham and pretcnce is but
another 'beggarly air. and is really
disgrace TO the youth.
Young men and young women, be
honest There is no disgrace in being
poor there is no humiliation in hav.
ing to acknowledge that your iacJmc
will not allow you to indulge in ex-
travagence.
Don't pretend to be what you are
not We glory in ambition. We praise
honest pride. hut lct the ambition be
in rig ht direction, and let the pride
be manly. There is something grand
in that pride which says, No, | can
not afford such and such luxury
There is nobility which far tran
sends that of duke or a marquis, in
that young man who says, | am
worker. | use my hands for a living
The man who earns dollar by honest
work, is worth a thousand idlers, and
the one who acknowledges his true
position is of far greater value as
citizen than anyone who puts on beg
carly airs
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-11-10

Hard to meet Rent Bin Of Seven
teen Dollars a Year.

A correspondent of the New Or
leans Picayune, writing from ireland,
says: One of these carts coming by
was in charge of a man and q woman
who willingly stopped to talk, and as
we rested under the thorny hedge and
Flo shared her luncheon with the
woman, l asked her all manner of
questions. She was q very good
specimen of her class, the wife of q
poor, very poor farmer. She was
barefooted. Her gown OF cheap wool
en- materiel. A big dimsy brown
shawl covered her shoulders. Above
it rose streng neck, q shapely head
covered with reddish hair that had a
wave in it, and that was loosely
knotted behind Her face was freckled,
sunstained, weather. beaten, her blue
eyes smiling. Her person was clean,
her clothes poor to the last degree. her
feet looked like huge red and yellow
Jumps of leather and grestle.
They, she and her husband, lived
six miles from Killarney. They had
bit of farm. -Four cows keep of
land, that is enough land to Craze
year in and year out four cows. In
this instance-for cows keep varies
according to the richness of the land
their farm consisted of eighteen acres.
Most of it was rocky there was bit
of bog from which they cut turf to
sell and for their own. FIRE. They man
aged to raise enough potatoes for their
ownuse most years.
For this farm they paid to their
landlord f3 los. a year-$17 so of our
money. Besides the rent they paid
all the taxes on the land and poor rates
besides. They had ten children, most
of them large enough, only there was
no work for them to do. They lived
in a wild country spotted with small
farms as unproductive as their own;
there was no town nearer than Killar-
ney mo place for the boys to get work.
Sometimes some of the little ones got
little schooling. For this they paid
the teacher shilling and q quarter.
Their food was only potatoes, milk
and stir about-mush made of yellow
American cornmeal. Some of the
children had never tasted meat in all
their lives, nor worn shoe. The bit
of white bread Flo gave her was the
first she had tasted i'm year, and she
only 'tasted" that, slipping the rest
of it into the bosom of her frock to
take home to the "babbies."
The load of turf, about two borrels,
would sell in Killarney for 10 pence.
With the ten pence they would buy
meal. The donkey that drew their
little cart was worth $4.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-11-10
"Beggarly Airs"

There is a growing tendency on
the part of some of our young people,
who visit or dwell in our cities to
put on airs.
Like a secondhand suit of clothes,
the airs are often mis6ts.
Instead of that honest manliness
Which should characterize the citizens
of a republic we find sneaking, silly,
absurd aping of the fashions and
foibles OF the effete aristocracies OF the
Old World.
William Smith, Esquire, struts a.
long Fifth avenue with dude collar
round his neck and big cigar in his
mouth, and wants everyone to believe
that he can trace his ancestry back to
some of the titled aristocrats of Bri-
tain. He drinks champagne, talks
loud, and puts on airs.
Who is he?
Why at home he is plain Bill Smith,
whose father is hard working farmer
struggling to make both ends meet.
With false kindness he gives his son
a few dollars and sends him to New
York to see life. All the gloss and
glitter of the young fellow can easily
be rubbed off, and his ways are but
'beggarly airs.
Miss jones teaches school, and in
the summer is able to pay few days
visit Saratoga, at which place she talks
learnedly Of the places she has visited
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-11-10
Not IL She Knew It.

The door bell of the Vanity house rang at
about eight o'clock the other night, and
Mrs. Vanity said, excitedly, to her hus-
band
'FThere, Charles, / just know that the
furniture van was coming with the new
bedroom set we bought to-day, and IL it is
just won't receive it, that's all. F"
"Why not ?' asks Mr.. Vanity.
"why not ?" repeats Mrs. V. "Do you
think I'm going to pay S175 for n chamber
set and then have it sent out here after
dark so none of the neighbors can see it
when 1t is brought in ? Not IL know my
self, don't" .".-Defroa Free Press.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-11-10
Rival Painters.

Talking about quick work, said the
artist, 4 painted o complete landscape
scene in three days recently
That's nothing replies the scrape-
grace.
Nothing? I'd like to see an artist
who can beat it
Il have beaten it. / painted com.
plete town in one night
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Mormons Tarrcd and Feathered.

CALERA, Ala, Nov. 16.-For the
past three months party of six Nor.
mon elders have been proselyting in this
section and also at several small towns
across the Georgia border. Several con-
verts were made at the latter place, and
the Indignation and wrath of the people
could hardly be suppressed when on last
Sunday four married women and two
men left their homes and made public
their intention of going to Utah. The
people then all rose up at once and gave
the elders notice to move on instantly:
They refused at first, but Monday night
two of them we're taken out and tarred
and feathered, and the next night two
others were chased into the woods by
hounds and kept in the trees all night.
The elders left the next day, and the
converts are now missing also, leaving
ak forsaken homes. If the elders ever
return there they will be shot at sight.
The Mormons then moved into Ala.
bama and began their work in the lower
part of this county among the ignorant
country people. They were more sue
cessful there and have already baptized q
dozen or more. Yesterday, while Elders
Mower and Sea were conducting a meet.
ing at log school house, fifty armed
men dragged them from the pulpit.
They were carried into the woods, the
mob threatening to hang them at every
step, but on the intercession of friends
they were released on their written
promise to leave the county in twenty
four hours. Death was the alternative if
they returned. Both left last night, but
without their converts, escorted portion
of the way by an armed band of nearly
one hundred men. Armed patrols are
on guard, and publicly announce their
intention of killing the first elder who
returns there. A rumor was current that
Elder Masters was killed this morning
near the Georgia line by bloodhounds,
but it cannot be substantiated.
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A Sermon About the Anarchists.

DR.. Hemphill preached a powerful
sermon last night at the Second Presby-
terian Church, using as his subject the
fate Of the Anarchists. He said that it
was an unusual thing for him to take his
text from current affairs but this sight,
which had been witnessed by the entire
world, emphasized so forcibly the princi.
Piles upon which all government and law
we're based that he seized the opportunity
to draw its lesson. He dwelt upon the
ethics of punishment. Some held that
the Imprisonment of criminals was
intended for their reformation, but who
believed that satan and his angels were
any better to-day than when consigned to
the internal regions for their sins. The
officers who executed the laws decree in
the Anarchists case were the agents of
God. They might be elected by man,
but they were nevertheless Gods minis
ters. He bewailcd the sentimental ten
dency perceived so frequently in the
numerously signed petitions to commute
the sentence Of or pardon the murderers.
It was disregard ofjustice. And it was
this lack of a proper appreciation of JUS
tice that was ever affecting the preaching
of the doctrine of the atonement. Some
held that the punishment was inflicted
by society, but this was nothing more
than declaring might was right.-Louis.
viNe Courier. Journal, November ID.
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The Effect of Factories.

SpARTANBURG, November lG.-The
benefit of cotton mills to farmers in their
immediate neighborhood is illustrated
every day in our county. The Pacolet
Mills draw cotton from the neighborhood
of Union Courthouse. 1t is usual
thing for farmers to haul their cotton to
Gaffney City and have it ginned and
then haul it away from the market there
and carry it to Clifton distance of
twelve miles. Then it is hauled away
from the vicinity of Spartanburg, where
there is strong competition amongst the
buyers, to Clifton, because the farmers
get ten cents more on the hundred and
are not charged for weighing. The cot
ton is not graded 80 closely at the mills
as when it is bought for the general mar
ket. One result of this is that the price
in Spartanburg, paid by the regular
buyers is about ten to fifteen cents in ad-
vance of the Legitimate rates, when com.
pared with other markets. Some time
ago, when our buyers were paying more
than Charlotte, Augusta or Columbia, l
asked one of them how they managed to
get out without losing. He replied {:
"Sometimes we have to wiggle like the
devil to get out all right"
Whenever a county builds factories
enough to consume all the cotton in the
vicinity it is very evident that the price
will be advanced, for the spinners can.
not afford to buy it abroad and have it
shipped when they can get it at their
own doors. When Columbia starts her
two hundred thousand spindles on that
famous canal, cotton will advance ten to
fifteen points in all the surrounding
counties. That is, ten mills on the Con.
garee would create demand fof one
hundred thousand bales of cotton, and
for that cotton the farmers would receive
a half dollar bale more than they now
get in the Columbia cotton market.
Then the building of mills stimulates
truck farming and the raising of food
crops, for factory population buys lib.
orally and pays promptly. So the adran.
tages of cotton factories are not felt by
the stockholders and officers alone, but
every man in the vicinity who raise a
bale of cotton, provisions, fowls, vegeta-
bles or fruit for sale is benefited by hav.
ing an active and ready market at his
door.-Cowesponlence News and Courier.
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The Farmers Convention.
RopEn's, S. C.. November Is. 1887

RopER's, S. G., November Is, 1887.
TO the Editor Of the Ne'cs and Courier !:
AS chairman of the executive committee
of the Farmers's Association, beg space
in your valuable paper to announce that
delegates 10 the approaching Farmers
Convention, which meets in Columbia
Thursday, December l, will be given
reduced rates by the following railroads :
Atlantic Coast Line and connections,
Richmond and Danvile and its connec-
tions, Savannah and Charleston. have
received no answer from the South Caro-
lima Railway, and the Port Royal Rail.
road refused any reduction on the ground
that it is political convention" which
is news TO many of US. Newspapers
friendly to the farming interests will
please COPY. B. r. TILLMAN,
Chairman Executive Committee Far.
mers' Association.
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DY virtue of Deed of Trust executed
ID to me by J. +. Wilson, will sell on
SALESDAY IN DECEMBER next, two
hundred and fifteen acres of Land. lying
about one and one fourth miles from the
Town of Anderson, divided into four
Tracts, as follows:
Tract No. /, containing 36 acres, bound
ed by lands of Mrs. McGregor, J. w. Dan
iels, B. Frank Crayton and Tract No. 2.
Tract NJ. >, containing SO acres, bound
ed by J. w. Daniels, 3. Frank Crayton
and Tracts Nos- and 3. On this Tract
about one-third is woodland, and q good
tenement house with two rooms.
Tract No 3, containing III acres, bound
ed by Tracts Nos. and 4, 3. Frank Cray
ton and j. W. Daniels. All woodland.
Tract No. q, containing 10G4 acres. boun-
dcd by B. Frank Crayton. B. F. Whitner,
J. l.. Byrum and Tract No. 3. On this
Tract is good tenement, all necessary out
buildings and about twenty-five acres of
woodland, and balance in good state of
cultivation.
Any further information can be had by
calling on ]. +. Wilson, Anderson, S. G.
Terms of Sale-One- half cash. balance on
a credit of twelve months, with interest at
10 per cent from day of sale, secured by
bond and mortgage of the premises, with
leave to the purchaser to anticipate pay
ment at any time. Purchasers TO pay ex-
ira for papers.
]. L. TRIBBLE, Trustee.
Nov 10 1887 1S
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was right over Oh her port side before
they fred the rockets. I waited until
tina water touched the boilers, putting
out the fires. The confusion was
extreme. Everybody seemed tcrlo:.
stricken. This may account for the
apparent want of discipline. The fran.
tic passengers unnerved some of the crew,
preventing them from acting as bravely
as they might have done. The captain
did his hest to restore order. / believe q
good lookout was kept. We had our
lights up"
Mr. Appleby, one of the passengers
saved said: II was in my berth, as also
were many others when the crash came.
I Immediately rushed on deck, followed
by confused crowd. Upon first reach
ing the deck I did not think anything
much was the matter until l saw the
port bow was stove in close to the rig.
ging, aud laid open for great space.
The passengers soon crowded the deck
and the captain and officers shouted that
all the boats be lowered. The vessel was
then settling down by the head and the
excitement was at its worst. had
hardly time to look around me before the
vessel listed over on her port side, throw.
ing the passengers and crew together on
that side of the vessel. Most of the boats
were then worthless.
"Two boats on the port side were
swung ont and lowered, but the other six
were useless. While the sailors we're
endeavoripg to lower the boats the pas
sengers hindered them by rushing franti.
cally against them. The crew tried to
keep the passengers back, thus losing
valuable time. When the boats we're
finally lowered there WAS rush to get
into them. tried too, but did not get q
chance. Then decided to trust to life
belt. The scene on deck was appalling.
The passengers and crew were crowded
together and the shrieks of the women,
the cries of the children and the shouts
of the men were frightful. Some of the
passengers were ON their knees praying.
When the Scholten sank beneath our
feet there was struggle in the icy water.
Most of us had life belts. Sarah Gold,
Stepheney Robson and 1 kept together.
We clung to each other and drifted
toward the Ebro, finally reaching that
vessel"
The second officer declares that every
precaution had been taken on board the
Scholten. A good lookout was kept and
Capt. Taat not only had the ordinary
watch on the bridge at the time Of the
disaster, but all the officers, who intended
to remain there till the vessel was fairly
down the Channel. The captain was
last seen at his post, trying TO quiet the
passengers and get the boat of.
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Barnuln's Circus Burned.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Nov. 2O.-About
10 o'clock tonight fire broke out in the
cluster of buildings occupied by P. T..
"greatest show on EARTH" The blaze
originated in the main building, and is
supposed 10 have been caused by the
explosion of kerosene lamp. An
alarm was rung in, followed few min.
utes later by second alarm which
brought the greater part of the fire de.
partment to the scene. Within FIVE
minutes after the alarm had sounded,
the streets were filled with thousands of
people hurrying toward the spot. It
soon became apparent that the main
building could not be saved, and every
effort was made to rescue the animals.
Some of them we're gotten safely out,
but large number, including three ele.
plants, Samson, Jim and Burt, perished
in the flames. Hundreds of animals,
including elephants, lions, tigers, leop-
ards, camels and horses were liberated,
or else broke loose, and for hours a tre-
mendous uproar ensued. Several per-
sons were picked up in the streets by the
infuriated elephants and tossed all
around.
A detail of police pursued a roaring
lion and put six or seven bullets into
his hide, but with no perceptlble result.
At midnight the fire is under control but
still burning. The main building was
destroyed. The fire was caused by the
explosion of watchman's lantern.
There were six watchmen. Five har-
reported but one is missing. Three
elephants were burned to death, thirty:
six broke loose and escaped. Six of
them and hippotamus rushed through
the streets in a pitiable condition, being
terribly burned. Thirty elephants and a
large lion started off across the country
towards Easton. ALI the trained horses
were burned, as were also the lions,
tigers, hyenas, monkeys, birds, colts and
three rhinoceros. The car sheds were
saved, but the main building burned so
rapidly and fercely that water had no
effect upon the flames. The total losses
are estimated from $50O,000 to 100000,
with 100000 insurance. Mr.. Boutwell,,
the Bridgeport agent, says steps will be
taken at once to obtain new attractions.
He thinks the building will be rebuilt at
Jersey City instead of Bridgeport on
account of better railroad facilities Mr..
Barnum and Mr.. Bailey are in New
York.
A watchman asserts that while making
the rounds he discovered the fire, and as
he did so, he started to cry out, when
some unknown person hit him on the
head with blunt instrument, telling
him to the ground and cutting several
severe gashes in his head He staggered
to his feet, giving the alarm, and enab-
ling the other watchmen who we're in the
building preparing for bed, to escape.
One of the three elephants burned was
the famous "sacred white elephant"
The lion which the police attempted to
kill at the time the fire broke out was
afterwards found in barn devouring a
COW, which he had killed. He was shot.
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Tie Abbott Incident.

DANv1LLE, VA, November 19.-.The
Methodist Conference to. day passed the
following resolutions by a rising vote:
Whereas, the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, has always borne strong
testimony against the theatre; and,
Whereas, the patronizing of theatrical
exhibitions by protesting Christians has
by recent occurrences been given unusual
prominence; and,
Whereas, the situation seems to justify
an expression of opinion on this subject
by conference; therefore,
"Resolved, That we are profoundly
convinced of the evil character and infu.
ence of the theatre and of its power as a
promoter of irreligion, immortality and
vice.
Resolved, That we most affsctionately
and earnestly exhort our people to set
their faces against this thing es diver
sion which cannot be used in the name
of the Lord Jesus"
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Notice to Creditors.


TEsSE T. ASHLEY having filed with
u ME his petition showing that he is
Anderson County on Bail Writ for debt,
at the suit of c. E. Harper, and that he is
unable to give the bail required, and hay,
ing filed with me al account of his Real
and Personal property, as required by the
Act of the General Assembly "For the re.
lief of persons arrested in civil actions"
with his petition under said Act,
These are, therefore, to summon the said
G. Z. Harper and all other the creditors OF
the said Jesse Il. Ashley to whom tho said
Jesse 7. Ashley is in anywise indebted, to
appear before me on the 18th day of De-
celnber A. D. 1887, and show cause, if any
they can, why he should not be discharged
from further custody of the Sheriff, and
the prayer of his petition granted.
NJ. z. TRIBBLE, c.cp.
Nov 2l, 1887 90 3
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sHERIFF's SALE.
STATE OF South CAROLYN.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
DY virtue Of an Execution to ME di-
ID rected I will expose to sale on Sale
day in December, 1887, at Anderson Court
House, S. c., within the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to wit:
ONE TRACT OF LAND,
in Hopewell Township, Anderson County,
s. c., on waters of Beaverdam Creek, con-
tanning two hundred and forty (240) acres,
more or less, adjoining lands of w. Q.
Hammond. w. B. Bailey and others.
Levied on as the property of Lucinda
Dalrymple, as EXccutrix, at the suit Of
w. Q. Hammond. All buildings and i'm
provcments reserved.
Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser to pay
extra for necessary papers.
w. L. BOLT,
Sheriff Anderson County.
Nnr Id 1857 Is
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Geo. Francis Train says the anar
chists will blow up every city between
New York and San Francisco until they
feel that Fridays murder of their four
comrades is avenged. He says Lingg
did not commit suicide, but that dyna.
mite cartridge was placed in q candle in
his cell by the authorities who feared
that the men would be pardoned unless
some violence was done by them.